First off, I would like to let you know that I officially value you more than my being happy in the future. How so, you ask? Here's how: I really should be doing my homework, but instead I am writing this, just for you to read. You should feel honoured - I am, in a way, picking you over my educational success which would lead to my receiving a degree from a college/university, enabling me to get one of the few jobs I am currently considering, which would leave to my having a happy life. So, in a way, I value you more than my life (or something like that). That, my friend, is opportunity cost at one of it's greatest examples (my Economics teacher would be so proud, but with the number of typos I had to fix while writing this, my English teacher wouldn't be).But let's not talk about my undying faith to you any longer.If you are a fan of having absolutely no clue what on God's great and somewhat-green Earth is happening to the main character, then this book is for you. I'm serious. This book is a journalist's look back at what she should know the most about - herself. And although generally this might apply to a person, and I'm sure this does apply to Cahalan herself as well, there is a short span of time where it doesn't. Where she wonders if she truly was ever there during that time, and if she wasn't, well, where was she?

Have you ever read a book, where you want to say something about it, and you just can't figure out what to say? That is how I am about this book - so if how I feel about this book is blurry at first, please be patient while I babble my way out of this slightly confusing state!Personally, I am very interested in deafness (I am walking along the path to deafness myself), Deaf Culture, Deaf history, and d/Deaf people. Helen Keller was both deaf and blind - and I am very interested in how a person would live out their life like that - being blind might be difficult at first, but after a while, a person could probably adjust, and the idea of deafness does not really scare me. But being blind and deaf is something else altogether - I do not know if I could handle them both at the same time - I think that I would find it frightening. Helen Keller is both, which interests me greatly. I found myself looking for a book about Helen Keller, and this is what I found - a book from the perspective of the highly overlooked teacher of Helen Keller, the person who taught Helen everything she knew - Annie Sullivan, about her first month trying to, well, reach Helen Keller.

Is it possible to say that you liked a book that made you cry? I don't know. It's a weird feeling, that I just read the best book I have in a long time, and yet some of it was so sad. I practically devoured this book, and it is something that I definitely want to read again. I first picked it up because it had this vibrant red spine, which stood out on the bookshelf I was looking at. Then I noticed the title, which intrigued me. Finally, I read the back, and I knew that I had to read it. It was so well written, and the voice was just the way it needed to be to make everyone feel for her. But I guess I should back up and tell you what the book is actually about, right? Yes, I'm sure you're all wondering about my mysteriously sad new book. Even if you're not, you still need to click 'read more'. It's a fact. Not really, but you should.

Authors

Jason and Elizabeth are brother and sister book addicts who somehow manage to get along (most of the time). They reside in Canada with their dog Becky, and one (slightly insane) fly-hunting cat named Fish. Oh. And their parents. They're important too.